Ahmet Rüstem Bey: Difference between revisions

He followed his father in the foreign service.<ref name=Gawrych/><ref name=Gurpinar>Doğan Gürpinar, ''Ottoman Imperial Diplomacy: A Political, Social and Cultural History'' (I. B. Tauris, 2014), pp. 136–137.</ref> From 1881 to December 1885 he served his first posting as a French translator in a mission in Bulgaria, and in June 1886 he became the third secretary of the embassy in Athens, Greece. Circa 1890 he was sent to Belgrade, Serbia and held that post for three months. He quit at that point but rejoined the Belgrade mission, now as a second secretary, as his employers increased his status. He subsequently held this status in Athens and then, from May 1893, in London, United Kingdom. Circa 1893/19841894 he was moved to Bucharest, Romania, and now served as a first secretary. He held that status when he was moved to Washington DC in April 1897. That year he quit the service to serve in the [[Greco-Turkish War (1897)|Greco-Turkish War]], and he received a medal in September of that year after fighting in the [[Battle of Domokos]] as an honorary captain; the Romanian government also gave him the third class ''Couronne de Roumanie''. He rejoined the diplomatic service in Bucharest that same year, then moved to London in July 1898, and back to Washington in January 1899.<ref name=Wastip782/>